JD Vance accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of having “definitely committed immigration fraud” and said that he’d recently spoken with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller about how best to “go after her.”

Speaking on a podcast hosted by MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Friday, Vance was asked about claims that Omar had defrauded the United States by marrying her brother to secure his legal residency.

The unsubstantiated claim has circulated in MAGA circles for years but has been denied by Omar multiple times. The congresswoman was born in Somalia but moved to Minneapolis with her family in 1997, fleeing the civil war.

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      Both things are correct. It’s a standard character trait that all MAGAs think we are as stupid as they are. They are too stupid to be aware of that fact. They’re like untrained pets, who have grown so large, they now rule the house, and have become dangerous.

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      I read the book, it’s the later.

      Mouth-breathers kept telling me, you don’t understand us, he gets us, that book explains it all.

      There’s no fucking way, so i read it. It doesn’t. It spins a mostly untrue (to him) tale that is honestly normal in the non rich people raised in Appalachia. I had family in the hills.

      The mine/mill/factory was either sold to China and shut down, or just shut down for non profitability, leaving everyone working in the service industry with no money flowing into the areas. People get poor, drugs happen, service industry crumbles.

      He told them that book would explain their story, so they just went OK, that’s why we’re racist, sexist, hate the poor.

      They just eat up everything he says.

      I’m as worried (if not more worried) about him replaceing T as I am T getting a third term.

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        If Vance becomes president, Peter Theil becomes president. He holds Vance’s leash.

        Theil absolutely has a plan to steal the presidency. Unfortunately for him, so do many other people, including Musk, Rubio, Don Jr, Bondi, Hegseth, etc. They ALL think they are the worthy MAGA successors, but they’re wrong.

        MAGA is a classic Cult of Personality. Once Trump assumes room temperature, the back-stabbing will destroy MAGA.

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      Are you saying he is stupid, because his claim is not true?

      But if he thinks he has corrupted the system enough that it works, he is evil not stupid.